RoR forums with Savage Beast

Part of the fun of developing in RoR is the great community of coders out there. I'm not a serious ruby hacker- I'm more of the lazy/pragmatic type. Thank goodness there's people out there like Jodi at http://the-soup.net/. Jodi's created a plugin version of Josh Grobel and Rick Olson's excellent Beast Forum, called Savage Beast, which promises to let us plug it into KaZuum and give a place for people to complain, comment about our services.

Jodi's excellent writeup is located here, I'll be following it.

Look for an update soon.

oish.

Wow what a busy weekend.

First, my brother in law gets married and I have the honor of DJ'ing his wedding. Everything went well, the bride did not kill me for playing one too many trance tracks, and in fact, she I think she rather enjoyed my transitions from Gloria Estefan's Conga to Nelly Furtado's Promiscuous Girl. But definitely weddings can be a joy and a curse to those throwing them. Having gone through the whole process myself, I can really say that getting married is one of those big hoops that you really just put yourself through in life.

The basest alternative is going down to your local judge and having him do it, and besides that the sky's the limit. You really get to plan out and make it the best experience that you want it to be, it's your chance (rather, it's the bride's chance) to make it her day of days. I'm glad everything turned out well for him and that they're having a blast in Hawaii.

But if you've ever looked for vendors for wedding stuff, the methodologies can be quite tedious and time consuming. When my wife and I started planning our wedding, we relied heavily on friends and family to help give pointers as to who to talk to, which shops to choose, from invitations, to decoration, to chair covers, and musicians. Of course, being the cost conscious and detail oriented woman she is, she managed to get us within budget and within what I consider a splendid ceremony. If we didn't have so much help, so many wedding TV shows, and other resources, I daresay I'd be typing this from a different relationship standpoint.

The second gala was a wonderful baby shower thrown for my wife by some of the awesome girls at our church. Once again I realized what a blessing it is to have so many supportive people helping us celebrate this special time in our lives.

As another week of beta continues, I'm just glad for all these timeouts that remind me why we're trying to do what we're doing here- to make everyone's lives a little bit less stressful, and helping people stop to smell the roses along the way.

First post first post!

TAKE THAT SUCKAS.

oh. You're here. Ahem.

I came to the realization that it was better to have this than try to force a blog to integrated with our RoR environment. Not that we didn't want one, but that we had so many other things to prioritize over this. And we're not great fans of wheel reinvention. Unless it includes spinnahz.

This is the blog here on out for the KaZuum team, we hope to entertain you with our witty musings and messages so you can get to know us and we can hopefully get to know you through commentary. We'll post latest developments and new features of the site here, along with any issues and problems we might have along the way.

So check this place as often as you can, the Google/Blogger team has done a great job of incorporating this sort of thing, so subscribing to the feed will also help keep you informed.

James, our resident codemonkey, er, developer, has never ever kept a blog before, so all this is rather new to him. Feel free to spice up his life.

-alex